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APPLICATION TILED MAY 29, 1914.

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lUNiTED gTATES FLORENCE A. HORNOR, 0F CHESTERFIELD, NEW JERSEY.

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Application filed May 29, 1914.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FLORENCE A. Honnon, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chesterfield, in the county of Burlington and State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

An object of the invention is to provide a box particularly adaptable for use as a confectionery box and which contemplates the exhibition of the confections in a store or show window prior to the sale of the box of confections to the customer and in which if any of the confections are removed or an endeavor is made to substitute other confections the mutilation of a novel means forming part of the box must first result, thus upon the subsequent sale of the box of confections notifying the customer that the original box of confections has been tampered with.

The invention contemplates among other features the provision of a box which preferably has a destruotible portion so arranged and designed as to provide a series of openings through which the confections in the box can be readily seen and which destructible member must be destroyed in order to re move some of the confections or all of them from the box, thereby destroying the box.

The invention still further comprehends the provision of a destructible member which will have a neat appearance and which will set off the box of confections to great advantage when the same is exhibited in a store or show window.

In the further disclosure of the invention reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, constituting a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference denote corresponding parts in all the views, and in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the box, showing the cover of the outer box body removed; Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal sec tional view taken through the box; and Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse sectional view.

Referring more particularly to the views, I provide an outer box body 10 which is of the usual sha e and construction and is preferably provided with a suitable cover 11 (not shown in Fig. 1). An inner box body 12 is adapted to lie within the outer box body 10 and can be made of any suitable Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 9, 1915.

Serial No. 841,846.

material, said inner box body being preferably secured by nine or otherwise to the outer box body 10 and adapted to receive therein confections 13.

A fancy top in the nature of a destructible cover 14 is provided for the inner box body 12 and has its edges secured thereto, the said cover consisting of paper or some other de structible material having a suitable fancy design or pattern and provided with a series of o posed slots 15 extending transversely to the longitudinal plane of the cover, with the inner ends of the slots closed by longitudinal. strip 16 secured to the cover at its end and having one end thereof constituting a handle 17 and projecting slightly upward from the cover so that it can be grasped and the strip ripped off of the cover. The provision of the slots 15 in the cover forms intermedi ate projections or tongues 18 which have their free ends secured beneath the strip 16 and which is preferably pasted thereto. Now when the box is placed in a window for display purposes it will be apparent that the confections can be readily seen through the slots in the cover, it being understood that the confections are placed in the inner box body prior to placing the fancy cover thereon and that the inner box body is glued or otherwise secured in the outer box body as mentioned heretofore. When a person purchases the box of confections the cover is arranged upon the outer box body. thus inclosing the inner box body and the fancy cover or top and the box of confections is thus delivered to the customer. When the customer desires to remove the confections he removes first the cover 11 from the outer box body, thus uncovering the fancy cover or top and then by graspin the handle end of the strip 16 and pulling thereon it will be apparent that the strip will be removed from the top cover and the said top cover will be so mutilated as to prevent its reuse or reappliance to the inner box boc y. With a fancy top or cover such as shown it will be apparent that the box will present a neat and effective appearance; that the dealer cannot tamper with the confections and replace the same with inferior confections without mutilating the fancy top or cover, thus protecting the consumer, and ,that the box of confections provided with a dfanc'y top or cover such as mentioned can be displayed to advantage in a store or shop Window and Will present a neat and appetiz ing appearance.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

As a new article of manufacture, a box comprising a box body, a cover for the box body, a series of transversely extending cross pieces formed with the cover to provide a series of transverse openings through which the contents of the box body can be seen, said cover being rigidly secured to the boX body, and alon'gitudinal tearing member crossing the cross pieces at their medial portions andsecured thereto, with an edge of the tearing member free to form a handle whereby it can be grasped and removed, thereby tearing the cross pieces and mutilating the said cover, said tearing member lying flat against the cross pieces and also secured to the main portion of the cover.

In testimony whereof I affiX my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JOSEPHINE BRUGKER, O. R. STOKES.

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